A long-overdue appreciation of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt as a shadowy mob enforcer, is one of the most highly-anticipated titles to be released later this year. Truth be told, I wasn’t as excited for the gritty crime drama as others, but that’s perhaps because I hadn’t yet seen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which I called “elegiac and lyrical, hauntingly grim and poetically gloomy” in my latest review for Static Mass Emporium.

I absolutely loved Dominik’s second feature film, unlike so many others. And I had had an odd feeling that I would love Jesse James very much for a good many months before finally popping in the rented DVD. Honestly don’t know why I had waited that long to see this film, but boy, am I glad I did. It’s a true shame that it isn’t on Netflix streaming, readily available for unsuspecting audiences who might expecting an action-packed Western…and instead will land on one of the most remarkable films from the past few years.

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